Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Art, in Music, in Religion and in Science, 1936 was barren of a Man or Woman of the Year. Typical was Mme Curie-Joliot, daughter of the late great discoverer of radium, who became in 1936 one of the first three women ever to reach French Cabinet rank. Not...
Artist Jorgensen reached California from his native Oslo in 1870, aged 10. He was the first enrolled pupil of the California School of Fine Arts. In 1883, when he had served as the school's assistant director for two years, he married a pupil, Angela Ghirardelli, daughter of famed...
He went back to Buffalo, had a gallows built in the jail yard, a canvas stretched overhead to prevent the curious from seeing from neighboring housetops. After taking unusual precautions to have the execution go off swiftly and without a hitch, he took a stand where he could not see...
Official recognition should be given to constitutional history, which forms the canvas on which the legal picture is painted, and to Latin, mathematics, science and logic, which make for mental discipline. If such courses were advertised as advisable for law school, less time would be wasted in "social sciences", which...
Enough canvas to spread a new top over John Ringling's three-ring circus was on view in Manhattan's art galleries last week. In the busiest week the U. S. art world has seen in many years, 30 separate exhibitions opened. Many of them were worth the...